Felimare cantabrica
{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}
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| image = Nudibrankioa.jpg
| image_caption =Felimare cantabrica
| genus = Felimare
| species = cantabrica
| authority = (Bouchet & Ortea, 1980)Bouchet, P. & Ortea, J. (1980) Quelques Chromodorididae bleus (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Nudibranchiata) de l'Atlantique oriental. Annales de l'Institut Oceanographique, Paris, 56(2): 117-125.
| synonyms= {{species list |Hypselodoris cantabrica| Bouchet & Ortea, 1980 (basionym) }}
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Felimare cantabrica is a species of colourful sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Chromodorididae.Bouchet, P. (2012). [http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=597543 Felimare cantabrica.] Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2012-05-11Johnson R.F. & Gosliner T.M. (2012)[http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0033479 Traditional taxonomic groupings mask evolutionary history: A molecular phylogeny and new classification of the chromodorid nudibranchs.] PLoS ONE 7(4): e33479
Distribution
This nudibranch is found in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean (Bay of Biscay) and the Atlantic coasts of Spain and Portugal.Ortea, J., Valdés, Á. & García-Gómez, J.C. (1996). Revisión de las especies atlánticas de la familia Chromodorididae (Mollusca: Nudibranchia) del grupo cromático azul. Avicennia suplemento 1: 1-165 page(s): 104
Description
Felimare cantabrica has a light and dark blue body, flecked with yellow lines and spots. Its mantle edge is lined with yellow-light blue-yellow banding. The gills and rhinophores are purple.Rudman, W.B., 2000 (March 19) [http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet/hypscant Hypselodoris cantabrica Bouchet & Ortea, 1980.]
This species can reach a total length of at least 40 mm and has been observed feeding on sponges from the genus Dysidea.Poddubetskaia, M., 2004 (Dec 24) [http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/12745 Hypselodoris cantabrica feeding.]
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